Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-28
WHY PEOPLE BECOAE BALD
An Interesting address on the Loss OF Hair
Tho Remedy Therefor.

An Iutsrestin address on the Loss of Hair
Tho Remedy Therefor.
10 don Standard.
At the opening meeting of the British
PSYCHOLOGICAL Association the inaugural
address was delivered by Mr.. G. q.
Wheeler, who eaid it was the object OF
the Theological Association to trace the
loss Of hair to its true causes. to investl-
gate the secrets Of nature, and lesrn the
physiological actions of remedies that
would benefit and assist nature as to re-
pair disordered functions. Out Of 1900
men upon the "Medical Register" he be-
lieved that scarcely twenty had made q
special study of the hair. Hair falling
might be induced by one cause only,
or by several acting together or in
succession, as facilitating Influences,
nerve troubles, excitement, care, worry,
blood diseases, hereditary predlsposition,
occupation, climate, mechanical obstruc-
ton, mental emotion, bad ventilation,
high temperature, yegetoid plants and
animal parasites. The cause Of badness
was not ia the hair shaft but il the family
functions of nutrition, and although there
were in this country some $4,000 so-called
hairdressers, their treatment mad proved
practically impotent to prevent, arrest or
modify the progress OF badness. The
association was endeavoring TO
establish hospital for the treat
ment of hair diseases with q
staff of trichoiogists and periodical iect
urer and demonstrations; and it oehoov-
ed them to impress upon the nation the
ACCESSIBILITY Of giving the association g
charter snd compelling every trichologist
to pass an examination before beng al
lowed to practice.
The habit of keeping the hair dry snd
free from some kind of grease 10 assist
the depressed powers of the hair was 70
his mind source of great deal Of bald
ness. Out of $50 subjects between the
ages of twenty five and fifty, who had
passed dnder his observation, ninety-tWo
were neither bald or getting so, and the
curious fact was brought to light that
sixty. one out Of ninety-two were wine
drinkers.
In fifty hsbitual spirit drinkers. men of
similar ages, ne found seven partially
bald and eleven quite bald. Among total
abstsiners,- on the other hand, he found
nine partly bald and seven totally bald
out Of fifty. After Obtaining these statis-
tics he took note of fifty "beer-drirking
drunkards," The Investigation resulting in
the discovery that five were partially bald
snd four quite bald. It was only fair,
however, to add that the spirit drinkers
were well-to- do, while the beer drinking
drunksrds belonged to the very poorest
classes.
On another occasion he made notes OF
40 bald persons of mixed classes and OF
various ages. This showed that forty
seven wore full boards, forty three shaved
nearly the whole face, forty-one shaved
only the chin and nine shaved only the
mustsche, thus showing that the beard
had little TO do with badness as cause.
In his own experience since 1879, when
this matter began to especially engage
attention, he was not able to demonstrate
conclusively the transmission OF any
special fungus or parasite from lower ami
mails to man or woman in this excessive
hair failing or badness.
He had never been in position to do
this experimentally, yet his conviction
was that the dog and the cat were often